Assessing Data Completeness, Quality, and Representativeness of Justifiable Homicides in the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports: A Research Note

Brian Karl Finch; Kyla Thomas; Audrey N. Beck; D. Brian Burghart; David Klinger; Richard R. Johnson

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Assessing Data Completeness, Quality, and Representativeness of Justifiable Homicides in the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports: A Research Note

Brian Karl Finch, Kyla Thomas, Audrey N. Beck, D. Brian Burghart, David Klinger, Richard R. Johnson

University of Missouri-St. Louis

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Original language	American English
Journal	Journal of Quantitative Criminology
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/S10940-021-09493-X
State	Published - Feb 4 2021

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